World Famous Arrest Cambridge MA

Image of Cambridge MA Police Sgt. James Crowley who made the world's most famous disorderly conduct arrest in July 2009. when he arrested multi-millionaire tenured Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The aftermath which was ignored by the media was worse than any alleged abuses during the arrest.
Prof. Gates was not put into a cell. He was held for four hours in an office. His charges were dismissed before arraignment. How many people ever get such VIP treatment? It is an example of the two-tierd system of justice. One for the wealthy and powerful, another for the rest of us.

Cambridge Review Committee Part 1 of 4

The Cambridge City Manager and the Police Commissioner created a Review Committee funded with $130,000 of taxpayer cash money. Its mission is to study the most famous disorderly conduct arrest in the history of the world, and the culture of racism and classism in Cambridge. This city is primarily focused on and funds studying these two kinds of discrimination. Bias against persons with disabilities is ignored because persons with disabilities are not whole persons? Because they do not have a PAC? Because they are all uneducated slugs? The Review Committee will not say.

Photo by Boston Herald file

LET IT GO: Henry Louis Gates Jr. said he’ll donate the handcuffs used in his arrest to the Smithsonian.

Multi millionaire tenured Harvard professor Henry Gates, Jr. ("Do you know who I am?") was arrested and held for four hours. Within one week, before arraignment the President of the US, the Governor of Massachusetts, the Mayor of Cambridge all spoke out officially "to make this go away." Few observers see any problem with those officials abusing their power. The District Attorney abdicated his power and allowed a private attorney and the city solicitor to negotiate the dismissal of the charge. This is an example of an extreme abuse of the police powers, which is a common occurrence in Massachusetts. A Boston FBI informant who ran the Irish crime family that controls Massachusetts was charged with 19 homicides while working for the FBI. The Boston FBI was focused on ethnic cleansing of Italians from organized crime in MA. The FBI framed four white men for murder. Two died in prison. Two were released after 30 years. A US judge awarded $101 million, which the Justice Department appeals. In February 2010 a Harvard trained woman neurobiologist Amy Bishop ("Do you know who I am?"), allegedly shot and killed three colleagues at the University of Alabama after she was denied tenure. Previously she killed her brother in Braintree, MA near Boston, but was not charged. She was also not charged after a pipe bomb was found in her boss's home after she received a poor work review at Harvard. Other states have a less relaxed rectitude. Alabama charged her with capital murder. This is Part 1 of 4.

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Cambridge shelled out $20K for Gates review committee airfare, hotel

By Jillian Fennimore

Cambridge Chronicle

Posted Apr 15, 2010 @ 08:11 AM

Last update Apr 15, 2010 @ 08:36 AM

Lashley's Letter to Gates

This is a video report which includes a letter written by Cambridge Police Sgt. Leon Lashley (on scene at the arrest on July 16, 2009) to Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. It was allegedly carried by Sgt. James Crowley to his meeting with the President on Thursday July 30, 2009.

TV News Obsession

These images were taken on July 29, 2009, thirteen days after Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley arrested Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. for disorderly conduct. I encountered three TV remote units but there may have been more in other parts of the city. NBC News was stationed at City Hall and in front of the YMCA. They were preparing to cover the demonstration in support of Gates. Their sign said "Gates is right." I tried to explain that Gates is left but they insist he is right.

Most Rev. Filipe Teixeira

WFXT-TV FOX25 in Boston was on Broadway near the library a few feet from Ware Street.

WHDH-TV Channel 7 in Boston was stationed at Ware Street where the arrest happened.

This is the press conference that NBC News was in Cambridge to cover.

911 Arrest Tapes of Harvard Prof. Gates

This is from Cambridge Chronicle via YouTube about 7 minutes. There was some editing.

This is from WFXT-TV Channel 25 in Boston.

Obama Wrong Again

Obama gets it wrong regarding a local incident in Cambridge MA. He verifies the belief that there are two systems of justice -- one for rich and one for poor people. He brought race into the discussion where there was none except in the mind of the Harvard Professor. In any case how does a Harvard professor who gets recognition as a friend of the Governor, the Mayor and the President all black politicians see himself as a victim of discrimination? Did discrimination get him to be a Harvard professor?